Program Evaluation & Performance Measurement: An Introduction to PracticeSAGE, 2006 - 477 pages Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement integrates performance measurement into evaluation practice and shows how the skills that are essential for building program evaluation expertise are also important foundations for performance measurement. Program Evaluation and Performance Measurement does not assume a thorough understanding of research methods and design, instead guides the reader through a systematic introduction to these topics. Nor does the book assume a knowledge of statistics, although there are some sections that do outline the role that statistics play in evaluations. |
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Environments and Organizational Objectives | 39 |
Understanding and Applying Program Logic Models | 47 |
222 | 91 |
Measurement in Program Evaluation | 129 |
Applying Qualitative Evaluation Methods | 165 |
Assessing the Need for Programs | 201 |
Concepts and Issues in Economic Evaluation | 241 |
Using and Sustaining | 337 |
Intended Uses of Performance Measurement Systems | 343 |
Actual Uses of Performance Measurement | 349 |
Summary | 367 |
Program Evaluation and Program | 373 |
The Nature and Practice | 401 |
Glossary | 435 |
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